On NOW with Alex Wagner Monday,Â Alex took viewers on a tour through the history of debt ceiling negotiations, to dig up the origins of the hostage-style tactics that the GOP is using right now. The potentialÂ to hold...

House Republican leadership adopted the Tea Party strategy to avoid the debt ceiling crisis Thursday. At a press conference. Speaker John Boehner proposed a short-term delay of the nation’s debt limit, along with the ...

Republicans seemed to be ceding to the Tea Partyâs demands once again Wednesday. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the top Republican on the House Budget Committee, published parall...

Republicans in Washington may have let the government shut down in exchange for efforts to defund the Affordable Care Act, but some of their state counterparts are running into the arms of the Obamacare.

Many media outlets and Republican lawmakers have spent the past two days lauding the actions of a Mississippi veterans group which bypassed the barricades surrounding the shuttered World War II memorial in Washington,...

With the federal government at a standstill for the first time in 17 years, HardballÂ hostÂ Chris Matthewsâ new book,Â Tip and the Gipper: When Politics WorkedÂ could not come at a better time. The book recounts the...

House Speaker John Boehner raised the stakes in the congressional standoff Â Thursday, rejecting a clean bill to fund the government expected to pass the Senate Â and issuing a series of demands to extend the country’...